Misinformed People Stick to Wrong Facts Even When Presented with Truth

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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128490874

New research suggests that misinformed people rarely change their minds when presented with the facts -- and often become even more attached to their beliefs. The finding raises questions about a key principle of a strong democracy: that a well-informed electorate is best.

cliffs: republicans are retards and American democracy is a trabroad
al gong show.
 
No sir, I'm pretty confident that you responded to my query with a partisan answer, thus confirming to me that I had indeed supposed wrongly.

Irony is you taking a statement of me clearly admitting an error in my surmisal about you as demonstration that I am incapable of changing my mind about something.
 
Straw man argument?!?!?!

Anyone who poses opposition to your opinion, you label as a Palin lover.


Hello prabroad
, this is kettle calling.....
 
Let me ask you two questions:

1) Are you a Republican or affiliated with their ideas?
2) Are you against critical thinking?
 
Look everybody, I relish in being ignorant! I'm so dumb. If you don't believe in the same magical sky fairy that I do, you're going to burn for eternity. I guess I'll make a post now!
 
Yes it's certainly attempting, but the theory is flawed and the government is incapable of performing as Keynes theorizes (sort of irrelevant given the flaws). It might be sort of interesting to watch (even though I heartily disagree with most of Keynes) if you had economists fulfilling roles as Keynes describes, doing all of their meddling in real time, but we don't have that. We have a bunch of self-interested politicians who aren't economists on a huge time and information lag and an even bigger lack of understanding. Those are the guys at the wheel and it is laughable.
 
Didn't read article, but this is nrabroad
surprising.

current political climate = high energy conflict, nrabroad
soft spoken discourse

hearing facts just comes through as "YOU'RE WRONG!!!!" and makes people even more defensive and agitated.


it's the same reason why in a fight with your wife/girlfriend/whatever, most people have to calm down before they admit their faults.
 
You're a conservative. Your values, as I have randomly seen you espouse them, fall mostly inline with a Republican platform. I do nrabroad
know if you have an allegiance to them or nrabroad
.
 
lets all max out our credit cards to help the economy. follow our governments lead and spend what you dont have
 
Why do we have a Welfare system?

It's nrabroad
to be nice to poor people. Look for how it serves the economy as a whole.

To decrease the savings rate, and give money to people who are likely to spend it, causing the companies that serve these people to grow, and need to hire people. Also to keep the mass of impoverished from becoming a destabilizing entity.
 
You are missing the larger issue. The banking industry forced the hand of our government in to making that decision by scaring them right around election time. Even if we did have a job loss of 5 million or whatever number you pulled out of your ass, in the long run, it would be for the better. Even though, yes, it would definitely be messy in the more immediate future.

This was a bandaid fix for a festering wound. Corporations largely control our government. Holding them accountable for their failures is an important thing to do.

Privatizing profits and socializing losses is an absolutely awful way to run our so-called free market capitalist economy. Corporations that fuck up and fail should be allowed to fail.

Friedman is undoubtedly rolling over in his grave.
 
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